New member, old boat

[AngrySailor]

Digging the old Yammi! The boats and motors are pretty cool too!

She’s swapped with a red head 700 triple. Scoots pretty good on the flat/hard pack snow and ice. I’ve had it over 100mph and didn’t find the end of it before running out of frozen river! Heading over to buddys shop today to yank the boat engine and V drive. Got material for my set back plate and was talking to an old pro-mod racer friend of mine. He gave me some advice on restripping the 14-71, said I’ll have no problem doing it here myself. He used to strip his own blowers all the time. Guess I’ll source some gears, bearings, seals and 1/4” half round Teflon next.

 

[AngrySailor]

Two bolts left holding the engine, V drive out, back at my shop getting a forklift out of hibernation to lift it out.

 

[AngrySailor]

It’s a production just to get the darn thing back in the barn... little forklift was stuck solid too. Can’t wait for our two months of summer...

 

[AngrySailor]

Boats in the barn, V drive in on my shop floor, the little 4-fiddy-4 is in the workshop and as good as sold (just gotta inspect and pull the marine parts off as it’s going in a ‘65 chev c30 lol). them Teflon strips pull out like butter, feeling way better about rebuilding this blower here. Just gotta check I don’t have a bent rotor... if I do it’s not much, measuring less than 0.005” runout at the gears so far.

 

[AngrySailor]

Working on the set back plate today. Awful tight running a mag trigger distributor under a big blower... I kinda wanted to avoid a crank trigger for this build.